Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
96.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 697.0628 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 96.8% of a perfect 720.
2025 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 19%.
CHUNKY BBQ ahead in 75% of their meetings
CHUNKY BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Off the trail for 4 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest (2025-11-05).
A tougher draw than 83% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1609 power rating — a tougher draw than 83% of every rated contest in the data.
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Fat Cap BBQ has 3 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 106 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 5 years before Fat Cap BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fat Cap BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Fat Cap BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Fat Cap BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Fat Cap BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 157.1200 | 166.40 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.0116 | 158.2856 | 170.43 | top 38% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 162.2400 | 168.83 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 163.4056 | 169.98 | top 47% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 19% |
| NC | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 19% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Currituck Bulls & BBQ | 2 | 18 | 0 | top 79% | 2021-11-05 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.2 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2025-11-05 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.2 | Currituck Bulls & BBQ | 2020-11-06 |
| -0.1 | Currituck Bulls & BBQ | 2021-11-05 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 19% | 96.8% | 96.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 69% | 93.9% | 93.9% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 89% | 89% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 19 / 158 (697.0628) | 30 (176.5600) | 30 (175.4288) | 44 (174.2628) | 74 (170.8112) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 107 / 401 (688.5140) | 337 (161.6568) | 35 (176.0116) | 119 (173.7028) | 29 (177.1428) |
| 2021-11-05 | Currituck Bulls & BBQ 🏅 Powells Point, NC | 18 / 26 (675.9200) | 15 (170.2628) | 9 (171.9772) | 23 (165.1200) | 17 (168.5600) |
| 2020-11-06 | Currituck Bulls & BBQ 🏅 Powells Point, NC | 25 / 28 (641.0512) | 28 (157.1200) | 25 (158.2856) | 22 (162.2400) | 19 (163.4056) |